use the correct verb - Three-fourths of the meal ________(was /were) eaten.
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was is correct because three fourths gives the result less than one and for being plural it is required to have 2 or more than 2.
if the noun after the three fourths is plural then the entire subject will be considered as plural.
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Three fourths of the meal were eaten.
This is the answer since it is considered plural when the number of quarters is more than one and it makes it correct to use ‘were’ instead of ‘was’ in this scenario.
If this was one fourths then maybe ‘was’ would have been used and hence the difference in the use of the verb in this sentence.
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